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OBSIDIAN
Overview sheet
OBSIDIAN — Counterintelligence overview
How OBSIDIAN is designed to detect foreign targeting, insider threats, and vetting risk during the adversary's reconnaissance phase.
What's inside
- The protective shield: early warning during reconnaissance, before compromise
- Guard — behavioral baselines with cross-domain anomaly correlation
- Shield — mapping what you protect to who wants it; targeting early warning
- Check — beneficial ownership, sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media screening with FOCI indicators
- Alignment with NISPOM- and CMMC-aligned compliance and continuous-evaluation programs
- The human role: automation surfaces, analysts adjudicate
- Format
- Pages
- 1
- Updated
- July 1, 2026
Who it's for
For CI teams, program protection offices, insider threat hubs, and security leadership.
Next step
Go beyond the page.
An architect can walk this in context — mapped to your domains of protection and your existing stack.